An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

Before he was forced to flee the country under Nazi rule, Albert Einstein spent his summers in this custom-built lakeside house near Berlin.

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

Inside this store, a mysterious statue draws visitors from the world over.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

This unique art installation used boiler tubes from a decommissioned power plant to resemble Antelope Canyon.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

This artificial ring island was built to hold cubic tons of polluted dirt.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.